Bulgaria to pen GP contract next weekend

Bernie Ecclestone will meet with a delegation from Bulgaria next weekend in
view of adding the name of the southeastern European republic to the
Formula One calendar.
We reported in March that the Bulgarian Motorcycle Federation was in...

Bernie Ecclestone will meet with a delegation from Bulgaria next weekend in
view of adding the name of the southeastern European republic to the
Formula One calendar.

We reported in March that the Bulgarian Motorcycle Federation was in talks
with the F1 chief executive and assigning funds to build a bespoke Formula
One circuit.

Representatives of the race organising committee have now been formally
invited to the Nurburgring next weekend to meet with Ecclestone, the Focus
news agency said on Thursday.

It is claimed the race promotion contract, to be initially for 2011 through
2015 and with an option to extend further, could be signed at the German
Grand Prix.

Ecclestone will reportedly also meet with Baden-Wurttemberg premier Gunther
Oettinger at the Nurburgring, in a bid to rescue embattled Hockenheim's
Formula One round.